East Asia

The best pieces to read as leaders meet in Beijing.

Tokyo wants to swerve past Trumpian pitfalls—and get a deal done.

Beijing promises greener and fairer projects, but it has to keep its promises at home as well.

When it comes to an agreement between Washington and Pyongyang, doing it right beats doing it fast.

In resisting the temptation to make a bad deal, he avoided failure at the Hanoi summit.

Corporate interests and political power are a dangerous mix for a wannabe president.

The conflict around Huawei may be the first shots in a new cold war.

The Chinese Communist Party sees the past as a resource to be plundered by the present.

As the Japan-U.S. alliance weakens, could Tokyo drop its nuclear weapons ban?

Spring Festival is coming, but the country's politics remain frozen.

Xinjiang's detainees are the latest victims of a deep insecurity.

Diplomacy is working—for now.

At the heart of Beijing's global influence plans is a clear Leninist vision.

The United States is worried North Korea will pocket goodies from its southern neighbor without giving up its nukes.

He should confront Trump’s mistakes and put forward a positive agenda.

President Nguyen Phu Trong is drawing from Xi Jinping's playbook.

Joseph Nye’s concept lost relevance, but China could bring it back.

Asian-American politics don't translate on screen into sensitivity to Singapore's real issues.

Beijing's plans are much bigger than the trade war.

Feminists, the young, and Islamophobes have allied against desperate Yemenis.